Honestly lots of people are doing miminal hours WFH, not just IT, all office workers. I think companies really dont know what to do about it.
With remote work I have to actually have done something.
In the office I just had to show up and sometimes that’s all I want to do.
Don’t get me wrong I much prefer WFH. But I do wish I could just show up and have that be enough some days.
2. If they are already happy, why are they installing spyware?
2. HR departments and poor managers making busywork to justify their existence.
^^^^ this so much!
Most HR departments desperately want to appear to be profit centres instead of the cost centres they actually are.
For example, the constant, continuous, process of eternally rolling out new terrible HR systems.
Or the latest set of CBT quizzes on corporate wrong think that come across like a Break Room session from Severance.
They need the constant set of campaigns to justify their place in the organisation but it's all just busy work.
You ever heard the saying: it takes 1 engineer 1 month to do a task that takes 2 engineers 2 months to do
At least that's how it's where I live in Europe. Companies feel entitled to the full 8h per day of productivity so if you know everything out in less then that they want to see it and give you more work to fill the remaining time, which Is why WFH is very rare and in office work is the norm here (Austria).